[KS] US North Korea GI Defector

[Gage, Sue J]

Could I ask you to send me the LA Times article, as well?  Thank you.
 
Sue-Je Gage

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	Tracy,

	Charles Robert Jenkins has been in the news since Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi's first visit to North Korea in September 2002.  I'm sending you separately (so as not to clog everyone's Inbox) a May 17 Los Angeles Times backgrounder on his case, the best wrap-up I've seen so far.  The U.S. Army says he defected in 1965 (not during the war), but his family insists he must have been kidnapped.

	Ken Kaliher
	Seoul
	
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	From: Tracy <sayyes2korea at yahoo.com> 

	

	Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:37 am 

	

	Subject: [KS] US North Korea GI Defector 

	

	

	> Dear Korea Studies List, 
	> A few days ago Reuters reported a man being reunited with his 
	> wife in Indonesia. He was a GI who is thought to have defected to 
	> North Korea during the Korean War. Has anyone heard of this man? 
	> Is anything else known about him and his family? 
	> see website: 
	> http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5614720&section=news 
	> Thank you. 
	> Tracy Stober 
	> University of Washington 
	> 
	> 
	> Afostercarter at aol.com wrote: 
	> Has anyone done any work on North Korean aid 
	> to Africa, or know anyone who has? 
	> 
	> In the 1970s and 1980s the DPRK had embassies 
	> all over the continent. Aid projects in a range of 
	> countries - Guinea, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and many more - 
	> ranged from the practical and useful (agriculture, construction) 
	> to the more dubious (military training, organizing mass games, 
	> building statues). It must have cost Pyongyang a fortune. Most of 
	> the embassies have shut, but a little of this may still continue. 
	> 
	> We think now of North Korea as an aid recipient. 
	> It used to be a donor also. This chapter in the heyday of 
	> tricontinental solidarity is now history, but should not go 
	> unrecorded. It would make a fascinating PhD topic, 
	> either in general or for particular countries. 
	> One model could be Philip Snow's The Star Raft, 
	> which looks at China's encounter with Africa. 
	> 
	> 
	> AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER 
	> Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds 
	> University 
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	> Email: afostercarter at aol.com website: www.aidanfc.net 
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